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I hope there is a huge, trillion dollar law suite in a few years.
http://gizmodo.com/exxon-scientists-knew-fossil-fuels-caused-climate-chang-1731707762
"It’s a story reminiscent of the way Big Tobacco covered up the deadly effects of smoking. In the 1980s, Exxon spent millions of dollars on groundbreaking research which irrefutably showed how their products would change the climate. And then they buried it all."
http://insideclimatenews.org/news/1...confirmed-fossil-fuels-role-in-global-warming
""Top Exxon scientists began warning management about fossil fuels and climate change in 1977"
"They didn't heed the warnings and doubled-down on keeping them a secret:
The warnings would later grow more urgent. In a 1982 document marked “not to be distributed externally,” the company’s environmental affairs office wrote that preventing global warming would require sharp cuts in fossil fuel use. Failure to do so, the document said, could result in “some potentially catastrophic events” that “might not be reversible.”"
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/front...gnored-its-own-early-climate-change-warnings/
"In 1978, the Exxon researchers warned that a doubling of CO2 levels in the atmosphere would increase average global temperatures by 2 to 3 degrees Celsius and would have a major impact on the company’s core business."
"The warnings would later grow more urgent. In a 1982 document marked “not to be distributed externally,” the company’s environmental affairs office wrote that preventing global warming would require sharp cuts in fossil fuel use. Failure to do so, the document said, could result in “some potentially catastrophic events” that “might not be reversible.”"
" The report notes that by the 1990s:
Exxon helped to found and lead the Global Climate Coalition, an alliance of some of the world’s largest companies seeking to halt government efforts to curb fossil fuel emissions. Exxon used the American Petroleum Institute, right-wing think tanks, campaign contributions and its own lobbying to push a narrative that climate science was too uncertain to necessitate cuts in fossil fuel emissions."
http://www.wired.com/2015/09/exxons-scientists-confirmed-climate-changein-70s/?mbid=social_fb
"Exxon’s own scientists spoke about climate change with certainty. "
"The results of an eight-month investigation by InsideClimate News, published Wednesday, show that Exxon scientist warned company executives decades ago about human-caused global warming.
But despite its own 40-year-old research that showed that burning fossil fuels released carbon dioxide that was warming the planet to harmful levels, Exxon – the United States' largest oil company – has spent $30 million to discredit climate science to protect its carbon-based business."
". The company’s research and engineering division comprised a team of accomplished scientists and mathematicians who worked with university scientists and the US Department of Energy to develop sophisticated climate models. They spent three years and at least $1 million measuring the levels of CO2 in the air and ocean aboard the company’s Esso Atlantic tanker, the InsideClimate report explains.
Exxon scientists published their research in peer-reviewed science journals.
By 1982, company scientists reported to management that despite the need for more research, controlling global warming “would require major reductions in fossil fuel combustion.”
According to InsideClimate:
Unless that happened, "there are some potentially catastrophic events that must be considered," the primer said, citing independent experts. "Once the effects are measurable, they might not be reversible."
InsideClimate's review of corporate financial reports filed during the height of the company’s climate research era showed that the company did not relay the gloomy results to shareholders."
"“With alarm bells suddenly ringing,” reports InsideClimate, “Exxon started financing efforts to amplify doubt about the state of climate science."
Shell is in deep water too:
http://www.theguardian.com/environm...-strategy-risking-catastrophic-climate-change
"Royal Dutch Shell has been accused of pursuing a strategy that would lead to potentially catastrophic climate change after an internal document acknowledged a global temperature rise of 4C, twice the level considered safe for the planet.
A paper used for guiding future business planning at the Anglo-Dutch multinational assumes that carbon dioxide emissions will fail to limit temperature increases to 2C, the internationally agreed threshold to prevent widespread flooding, famine and desertification.
'Don't mention the Arctic': Shell embarrassed by video competition row
Read more
Instead, the New Lens Scenarios document refers to a forecast by the independent International Energy Agency (IEA) that points to a temperature rise of up to 4C in the short term, rising later to 6C."
Complementary to this report is additional information from the Union of Concerned Scientists:
http://www.ucsusa.org/global-warmin...siers-fossil-fuel-industry-memos#.Vf25xt9Vikq
Finally:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dj0PYdl99tI
http://gizmodo.com/exxon-scientists-knew-fossil-fuels-caused-climate-chang-1731707762
"It’s a story reminiscent of the way Big Tobacco covered up the deadly effects of smoking. In the 1980s, Exxon spent millions of dollars on groundbreaking research which irrefutably showed how their products would change the climate. And then they buried it all."
http://insideclimatenews.org/news/1...confirmed-fossil-fuels-role-in-global-warming
""Top Exxon scientists began warning management about fossil fuels and climate change in 1977"
"They didn't heed the warnings and doubled-down on keeping them a secret:
The warnings would later grow more urgent. In a 1982 document marked “not to be distributed externally,” the company’s environmental affairs office wrote that preventing global warming would require sharp cuts in fossil fuel use. Failure to do so, the document said, could result in “some potentially catastrophic events” that “might not be reversible.”"
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/front...gnored-its-own-early-climate-change-warnings/
"In 1978, the Exxon researchers warned that a doubling of CO2 levels in the atmosphere would increase average global temperatures by 2 to 3 degrees Celsius and would have a major impact on the company’s core business."
"The warnings would later grow more urgent. In a 1982 document marked “not to be distributed externally,” the company’s environmental affairs office wrote that preventing global warming would require sharp cuts in fossil fuel use. Failure to do so, the document said, could result in “some potentially catastrophic events” that “might not be reversible.”"
" The report notes that by the 1990s:
Exxon helped to found and lead the Global Climate Coalition, an alliance of some of the world’s largest companies seeking to halt government efforts to curb fossil fuel emissions. Exxon used the American Petroleum Institute, right-wing think tanks, campaign contributions and its own lobbying to push a narrative that climate science was too uncertain to necessitate cuts in fossil fuel emissions."
http://www.wired.com/2015/09/exxons-scientists-confirmed-climate-changein-70s/?mbid=social_fb
"Exxon’s own scientists spoke about climate change with certainty. "
"The results of an eight-month investigation by InsideClimate News, published Wednesday, show that Exxon scientist warned company executives decades ago about human-caused global warming.
But despite its own 40-year-old research that showed that burning fossil fuels released carbon dioxide that was warming the planet to harmful levels, Exxon – the United States' largest oil company – has spent $30 million to discredit climate science to protect its carbon-based business."
". The company’s research and engineering division comprised a team of accomplished scientists and mathematicians who worked with university scientists and the US Department of Energy to develop sophisticated climate models. They spent three years and at least $1 million measuring the levels of CO2 in the air and ocean aboard the company’s Esso Atlantic tanker, the InsideClimate report explains.
Exxon scientists published their research in peer-reviewed science journals.
By 1982, company scientists reported to management that despite the need for more research, controlling global warming “would require major reductions in fossil fuel combustion.”
According to InsideClimate:
Unless that happened, "there are some potentially catastrophic events that must be considered," the primer said, citing independent experts. "Once the effects are measurable, they might not be reversible."
InsideClimate's review of corporate financial reports filed during the height of the company’s climate research era showed that the company did not relay the gloomy results to shareholders."
"“With alarm bells suddenly ringing,” reports InsideClimate, “Exxon started financing efforts to amplify doubt about the state of climate science."
Shell is in deep water too:
http://www.theguardian.com/environm...-strategy-risking-catastrophic-climate-change
"Royal Dutch Shell has been accused of pursuing a strategy that would lead to potentially catastrophic climate change after an internal document acknowledged a global temperature rise of 4C, twice the level considered safe for the planet.
A paper used for guiding future business planning at the Anglo-Dutch multinational assumes that carbon dioxide emissions will fail to limit temperature increases to 2C, the internationally agreed threshold to prevent widespread flooding, famine and desertification.
'Don't mention the Arctic': Shell embarrassed by video competition row
Read more
Instead, the New Lens Scenarios document refers to a forecast by the independent International Energy Agency (IEA) that points to a temperature rise of up to 4C in the short term, rising later to 6C."
Complementary to this report is additional information from the Union of Concerned Scientists:
http://www.ucsusa.org/global-warmin...siers-fossil-fuel-industry-memos#.Vf25xt9Vikq
Finally:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dj0PYdl99tI
